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Amadeus Consulting Discusses Finding the Right Words with Keyword Research
By Monica Valdez · 13 years ago
What? Why? How? Huh? Search engine optimization can be vital to a business because 90% of all online traffic is achieved through the various search engines. Therefore, knowing how to properly market your company through ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Windows Phone 7: Hubs, Tiles and Panorama UI
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
It has been almost three months since the launch of Windows® Phone 7, Microsoft’s® re-do of its mobile OS. Since the launch, our application development team has had fun playing with the phone’s features and ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Logo Redesign: How Often is Too Often?
By Lisa Calkins · 13 years ago
2010 saw a ton of high profile logo redesigns: MTV™, Rhapsody™, Wikipedia, the ill-fated Gap™ redesign and our personal favorite, Google™. This year alone Starbucks™ shook our coffee-loving brains with the simplification of the company’s ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses WebM vs. H.264: The HTML 5 Battle Continues
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
In a previous article, called Why Adobe and Apple Are Fighting over the Internet we talked about the battle for HTML 5 and a codec called H.264. In short, HTML 5 is the latest version ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Enterprise Mobile Application Development: Choosing the Right Platform
By Steve Loper · 13 years ago
Enterprise Mobile Application Development: Choosing the Right Platform One of the challenges for enterprise mobile management (EMM) and enterprise mobile application development is finding the right platform. In the past, the obvious choice was BlackBerry®, ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Creating RFPs and RFQs
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
Tips for Creating and Soliciting RFPs and RFQs In the business-to-business field, one common technique that companies use to find qualified providers is by issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP). This gives companies the chance ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses How to Go About Website Redesign and Development
By Lisa Calkins · 13 years ago
It’s a new year, does your website need a new look? So before you’ve gotten a quote from a website development company, here are some considerations that can help the redesign of your website go ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses the Verizon has the iPhone 4; The Wait is Over!
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
The rumors have been circulating for the past year about when Verizon Wireless™ would be getting the iPhone™ and as of last Friday the rumors exploded with the leak of a January 11th 11am EST ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses the Technology Tug of War
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
Breaking Down Artificial Barriers A few months ago I was volunteering at an elementary school "field day" in which the entire school participates in a variety of physical events and activities. Kindergartners to fifth graders ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Application Marketing on Apple’s Mac App Store
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
Apple® launched its long-awaited Mac® App Store™ today along with over 1000 applications which is available on any Mac running OS X Snow Leopard. This will be included on the OS X v10.6.6 software update ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses the Benefits of Creating Custom Wiki Web Apps
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
Creating a Knowledge Database through a Wiki Every business in every industry has one common problem: sharing and storing information in a way that is easily accessible for people to use and learn. In some ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses: When is Flash or Silverlight Design Appropriate?
By Lisa Calkins · 13 years ago
Michael Surtees of DesignNotes brought up a very good point in his blog, "Why Flash Should Not Be Used for Support Pages." The title pretty much sums up the point, but it opens up an ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Protecting the Weakest Link: Data and Internet Security
By Steve Loper · 13 years ago
Protecting the Weakest Link: Data and Internet Security There has been a lot of talk about Internet security recently, especially with Wikileaks releases and the hacking of prominent websites, including Gawker Media, McDonalds, and many ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Symbian, the Sleeper OS
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
The mobile phone operating systems you hear about most in the news are BlackBerry® (RIM), Apple® (iOS), Android™ and Windows®. However there is a sleeper OS, which is not mentioned often but holds the number ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses 2011 Tech Predictions (Take Two)
By Steve Loper · 13 years ago
A few weeks ago, Amadeus Consulting CIO John Basso made his 2011 technology predictions, as well as some predictions on Windows Phone 7. Being good friends, I’d like to comment on a few of his ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses 4 Tips for Debugging Software
By Steve Loper · 13 years ago
My Jeep Up until recently, I drove an old jeep. Like most aging vehicles, it had multiple problems and nuances, so every trip to the mechanic produced a long list of problems that needed be ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Transformational Technologies of the Decade: The "App"
By Steve Loper · 13 years ago
The last decade has been a great time for consumer technologies. We have seen many new gadgets and gizmos, and been amazed as things get smaller, faster, smarter, thinner and lighter. From a software perspective, ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses the Google Chrome App Store
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
New App Stores Promote Web Application Development Google™ announced this week its Chrome App Store, which allows people to package and distribute custom web applications in a central location, much like they would sell iPhone™ ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses UX Design for Multitouch: Virtual & Contextual Elements
By Lisa Calkins · 13 years ago
UI Patents, Wild West development and Minority Report, oh my! In my research for this article, I have read much about the impact of multitouch user experience design in many arenas, and those were three ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses: My Four Kids: Blackberry, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7
By John Basso · 13 years ago
My Four Kids A "father’s" perspective on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, and BlackBerry I’m the CIO at Amadeus Consulting, a custom software development company based in Boulder, Colorado. I’m fortunate because I get to ...